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Nasal infixes and other fixes

Howdy! I noticed your call for Latin and AG nasal infix categories, etc. I'd love to help out on the Latin end, if it gets approved. So feel free to message me if that gets the go-ahead. On another note, I was recently informed by User:ObsequiousNewt that {{grc-IPA}} is preferred over {{grc-ipa-rows}}. You'll have to talk to him about the nitty-gritty of why, but just a friendly FYI! Hope you are having a lovely new year! —JohnC5 ^{(Talk | contribs)} 09:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the info about the Greek template! I reverted my edits. :) I figure the main thing with the infix categories is how to add them to entries — what sort of template should be used, and so on. From briefly looking at Category:Latin words by prefix just now, it appears similar categories are very sparsely populated! However, there seems to be a {{prefix}}; perhaps a {{infix}} could be created, though it might require some fancy template coding that only others know how to do. Eru·tuon 09:38, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

And there is such a template. (I didn't check before posting.) Eru·tuon 09:39, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

I have used the {{prefix}} and {{suffix}} templates extensively but never the {{infix}} template. I think I could help most with finding the infixed terms and with editing the -n- article, if you need help in those domains.

PS: You are correct that Bach is most assurèdly the greatest composer to have ever lived.

—JohnC5 ^{(Talk | contribs)} 09:59, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

The "why" is that {{grc-IPA}} uses a module to generate pronunciations (and is generally the newer template.) As for the infix thing-- there's only that one place that happens with CVnCánō verbs, and it's from PIE, so I'd probably do something more like {{infix|*sleh₂gʷ|*n|lang=ine-pro}}. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to add any categories. I'll look at Module:compounds, but perhaps it's just best to manually add the category on each page. ObsequiousNewt (ἔβαζα|ἐτλέλεσα) 16:55, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

It could be done that way at first, but I have something a little more complex in mind. Could a template be created to display thus? (The present stem λαμβάν- originates) from *lh₂⟨n⟩gʷn̥-: zero-grade of *sleh₂gʷ- without s-mobile, with nasal infix *n, and with suffix *n̥. (I'm just guessing αν is n̥.) I think this would require a more PIE-oriented template, one that probably does not exist: one that is coded with PIE phonotactics and variant forms of roots, and will allow variations of ablaut and other morphophonological elements. Maybe it's a crazy idea. Eru·tuon 17:49, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Given the PIE-related nature of this idea, I posted in Wiktionary talk:About Proto-Indo-European. Eru·tuon 18:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)